Today we took it fairly easy, my knee is unfortunately playing up & quite painful, doh! Its been hammered lol. We've done so much walking. We started out by visiting the local food show where all the fresh local foods are made in each town. We try to grab something new to try each time. We visited Kawanakajima park and had our lunch and then investigated the old battleground of Kawanakajima where the famous battles between Takeda and Uesugi took place. The history of the area is very cool, unfortunately we're here a few days early for the cherry blossom to be out. Should be out in the next week. I grabbed a minature cast iron replica helmet of Uesugi Kenshin while I was there :) If u're interested in what happened here click the Kawanakajima link above. The movie "Heaven and Earth" depicts it well apparently.
We also visited Matsushiro area where the Sanada clan castle, museums and schools are still today. We met a Calafornian guy our age called Viktor on the way who we explored Matsushiro with and got lost. Was funny.
Tonight we went to a nice restaurant here in Nagano and it was delicious! We ate Eel in part of the meal! Hehe. Was nice.
Off to Matsumoto tomorrow morning and then a scenic bus trip to our next hotel in Hida Takayama.
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